Faithful Quotes - Page 36

• But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Thinking, Sky

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 111

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• If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

  Lee Marvin

  Friendship, Dog, House

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• Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love Is, Prudent, Courageous

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• The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.

  Will Cuppy

  Bird, Cages, Hundred

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• The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiring, Reality, Honest

  "Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2013.

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• When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Pride, Two

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• We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dust, Giving, Wife

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• Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Practice, Mind, Layers

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• I would like now to shed light in your heart on the truth of things, for it was not my will, but that of the Father and my Rabbi, which was done that faithful night.

  Judas Iscariot

  Truth, Father, Heart

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• And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Heart, Simple

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

  Oswald Chambers

  Our Relationship, Certainty

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “Conformed to His Image / Servant as His Lord: Lessons on Living Like Jesus”, p.38, Discovery House

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• Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

  Isocrates

  Mistake, Praise, Criticize

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.841, Delphi Classics

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• Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.

  Huldrych Zwingli

  Sacrifice, Sin, Christ

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• God has called us to SHINE, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants YOU to do is to use the influence YOU have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was FAITHFUL and used what he had.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Shining, Use, May

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• I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Might, Becoming, Wonder

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• God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Father, Fall

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2014

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• Don't be afraid to step out and trust God. He is more faithful than the rising of the sun.

  Kari Jobe

  Rising, Sun, Steps

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2013

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• To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .

  Edgar Cayce

  Prayer, Mean, Self

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• Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

  Rumi

  Faith, Kings, Lovely

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

  Seneca the Younger

  Faith, Men, Thinking

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• We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful.

  Royden G. Derrick

  Faith, Jesus, Trials

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• It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Work, Privilege

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.364

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• Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

  Plato

  Faith, Age, Opinion

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• The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

  James Mackintosh

  Faith, Wise, Inactivity

  Vindiciae Gallicae sec. 1 (1791)

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• All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

  Henri Bergson

  Faith, Giving, Poetry

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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